Traité pratique de la culture de l'osier et de son usage dans l'industrie de la vannerie fine et commune ... suivi d'un aperçu sur l'art du vannier
A practical French treatise by A. Moitrier, published in Paris by Dusacq in 1855, explaining how to cultivate osier willow and use it in fine and everyday basketry, with a summary of the basket maker's craft. The pictures are plate-style line drawings on folding sheets: rows of upright willow stems in neat grids, and a seated basket maker beside tools and workbench details. A designer might take the orderly botanical rendering of repeated forms and the precise technical diagrams of hand tools as models for pattern and layout.
